258 ALLEN S naturalist's LIP.RARY 



may be expected to produce a number of remarkable and, as 

 yet, unknown species." 



THE KALIJ PHEASANTS. GENUS GENN.EUS. 



Gen?uEiis, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1228. 



Type, G. nycthemeriis (Linn.). 



Tail composed of sixteen feathers, long, laterally compressed 



(like that of the Game-Cock) ; the middle pair somewhat, or 



considerably, longer than the second pair, and at least three 



times the length of the outer pair in the 7nale. 



First flight-feather considerably shorter than the second, 

 which is equal to the ninth or tenth ; fifth or sixth somewhat 

 the longest. 



Sides of the head naked. Plumage of sexes quite different. 

 Male with a long hairy crest and armed with a pair of stout, 

 fairly long, spurs. 



L THE WHITE-CRESTED KALIJ PHEASANT. GENN/EUS 

 ALBOCRISTATUS. 



Fhasicmiis aIdocrisfafus,Y\g. P. Z. S. 1830, p. 9, and 1832, p. 16; 



Gould, Cent. B. Himal. pis. 66, 67 (1832). 

 Phasiamts hamiltoni, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 41 



(1830-32). 

 Etiplocamus albocrisfafus, Elliot, Monogr. Phasian, ii. pi. 18 



(1872); Hume and Marshall, Game Birds of India, i. p. 



^77) pl- (1878); Gates, ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs Ind. 



B. iii. p. 413 (1890). 

 Gallophasis albocristaius, Mitch. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 544, pi. 148, 



fig. I, and pi. i49j fig- 3- 

 GenncBus albocri status, Wagler; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. xxii. p. 298 (1893). 

 Adult Male.— A long crest of hairy 7vhite feathers ; rest of the 

 upper-parts and throat black, glossed with purplish and steel- 

 blue ; the mantle and upper tail-coverts narrowly bordered 



